Whip-stock core



H. s. OUSHMAN.

WHIP STOCK CURE- Patented May 24, 1887.

enr s [nz/enior UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY SMITH OUSHMAN, OF MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

WHIP-STOCK CORE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,510, dated May 24, 1887.

Application filed Marrh 18, 1887. Serial No. 231,371. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, HENRY SMITH CUSHMAN, of Milford, in the county of Worcester, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in VVhipStock Cores; and Ido herebydeclare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 an edge view, of a piece of whip-stock core of my invention, the nature oi which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig. 3 is a side view of a piece of the wire as bent for making part of the core, such core consisting not only of the piece of wire bent serpentine, each bend, as shown, being right-angular, but a piece of wire, whalebone, or other suitable material, run through the several loops of theserpentine wlre.

In the drawings, A denotes the serpentine bent wire having loops formed by bending the wire at or about at right angles, as shown, and in one plane. B represents the interposed strip of whalebone or other suitable material, which is run through the loop successively, whereby it goes in one direction through one and in the opposite direction through the next one throughout the series, and in so doing causes each loop to be deflected from the normal plane of the loops, so as to stand at an obtuse angle to the next loop, and in consequence thereof to bind firmly in lateral directions on the interposed strip B.

I do not claim a whip-stock, ora core therefor, made as represented in the United States Patent No. 102,863that is, of wire wound, spirally curved, around the whip-body, and having the adjacent edges of the coils nearly or quite abutting; nor do I claim a whipstock body consisting of a rawhide center or core and a series of interlaced wires arranged about such, some of them running lengthwise on and others spirally about the core, such being as represented in the United States Patent No. 344,979, for in neither of such cases is the wire bent serpentine in one plane and the core inserted in the loops successively in opposite directions, as represented, whereby each loop is deflected from the normal plane of the loops and made to stand at an obtuse angle to the loop next it, the loops in consequence thereof being made through the elasticity of the wire to firmly grasp the interposed core on its opposite sides.

- As an improved article of manufacture, the whip-stock core, substantially as described, composedof the wire A, bent in the serpentine form, and in other respects as shown, and of the core B,extended through the several loops successively and in opposite directions, as represented.

HENRY SMITH GUSHMAN. Witnesses:

1%. H. EDDY, R. B. TORREY. 

